Winners of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020

Arquivo.pt, a research infrastructure managed by FCT through its National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN), announced the three winning finalists of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020.

The first prize, worth €10,000, was awarded tothe “Desarquivo”project developed by Miguel Ramalho. This project developed a tool that allows users to check the relationship between entities, people, organizations, and places based on news published online over the last 20 years. This tool is public. Students, researchers, or any citizen can use it to quickly and dynamically explore the content and relationships established.

The“Extensão Arquivo.pt”project won second place, with a prize of €3,000, and was developed by Rodrigo Marques and Hugo Silva. It is an extension for the current Arquivo.pt browser, which allows advanced searches to be performed directly from the browser, without having to leave the page currently being viewed.

Nuno Bragança won third prize, worth €2,000, with his project “Arquivo Económico.pt,” an application that allows users to compare product prices since the days of the Portuguese escudo.

The Honorable Mention in this edition of the Arquivo.pt Award was given to the project “Jornal do Passado” (Newspaper of the Past), developed by Bruno Galhardo. The project consists of a game in which users test their knowledge of news or events, trying to guess the date on which they occurred. The game is based on work done on the Público newspaper collection in Arquivo.pt, and the mention was awarded by the Público newspaper.

The Call projects Call evaluated by an independent jury composed of Miguel Fontes (executive director of Startup Lisboa), Helena Freitas (biologist and professor at the University of Coimbra), Paulo Bastos (TVI journalist), Maria Beatriz Marques (professor at the University of Coimbra and PhD in Literature in the field of Documentary Sciences), and Teresa Firmino (editor of the Science section of PÚBLICO). The awards will be presented to the winners at the 2020 Science Meeting, which will take place in early November.

Arquivo.pt is a research infrastructure that archives all web pages published in Portugal since 1996 and has an online search service that provides access to all archived information. The main objective of Arquivo.pt is to preserve information published on the web for memory, study, and research, with access to the entire population.

Every year, FCT opens the Call projects for the “Prémio Arquivo.pt” award, with the first edition having taken place in 2018. The results of the first edition can be found at Prémios Arquivo.pt 2018 and those of the second edition at Prémios Arquivo.pt 2019.